Lennart Mollerstrom
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden,
Registered: 17 Dec 2006
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DC3 Cockpit view
Posted: 24 Jun 2008 at 19:40 GMT
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I recently upgraded my camera gear to a Pentax K20D. This is one of the first panoramas with it.
www.4pisr.se/AllFullScreen.php?id=DC3Cockpit
It's my first panorama with five bracketed exposures. +2, 0, -2, -4 and -6 EV. Enfused then stitched.
Lennart
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mediavets
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Location: Isleham, Cambs., United Kingdom
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Philip Warner
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Location: Austin, United States
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Re: DC3 Cockpit view
Posted: 25 Jun 2008 at 3:45 GMT
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Excellent pano with the Enfused exposure!
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Pete Loud
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Re: DC3 Cockpit view
Posted: 25 Jun 2008 at 10:03 GMT
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I like your cockpit but I find the perfectly exposed exterior distracting. Were they cut & paste or was it only enfused?
I would actually prefer it with a slightly over exposed view out of the window and more emphasis on the interior.
Pete
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Lennart Mollerstrom
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Re: DC3 Cockpit view
Posted: 25 Jun 2008 at 19:39 GMT
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Pete,
I only used Enfuse. No cut & paste. I had to add an alpha mask to the over and underexposed images to mask out moving people before running Enfuse.
I wanted to give the viewer a feeling of what it would be like to sit in the captain's seat rather than highlight the interior. And then of course I wanted to show that it was possible to capture both the inside and outside perfectly exposed in the same image without cut & paste as I had to do it in the past.
The ability to make five exposure bracketing with 2 EV steps with just one press on the remote was part of the reason I chose the Pentax K20D.
Lennart
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Bravo
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Location: Athens, Greece
Registered: 28 Jan 2005
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Re: DC3 Cockpit view
Posted: 2 Aug 2008 at 21:07 GMT
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Amazing! I did an almost identical pano 3 yrs ago:
www.vgreece.com/index.php?entry=entry050917-202020
Mine is of a C-47D (military version of DC3) still in active duty with the Greek Air Force. They still have 3 or 4 of them in tip-top shape. A crop from the equirectangular image was published in a book printed to commemorate the show. Got a free copy of the book as payment, ha!
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John Houghton
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Re: DC3 Cockpit view
Posted: 3 Aug 2008 at 10:55 GMT
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Lennart, It's an excellent panorama. The sunlit spots in the cockpit have been caught very well, but there's a loss of shadow detail, which might or might not be available in the +2ev shots. The horizon is far from level, though, and I would like to see that corrected.
John
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Lennart Mollerstrom
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Re: DC3 Cockpit view
Posted: 3 Aug 2008 at 18:57 GMT
updated: 3 Aug 2008 at 18:57 GMT
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Thanks for your comments John! Now when you mentioned it I see how badly leveled it is. I thought there were no good references for leveling it but now when I took a look at it again I see that I actually have plenty to go on. I also increased the light in the shadows a bit.
The link to the corrected version is the same: www.4pisr.se/AllFullScreen.php?id=DC3Cockpit
Lennart
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